What are the responsibilities and job description for the Family Medicine Physician position at Amoskeag Health?
Make a difference every day at Amoskeag Health, where we believe strong healthcare begins with strong human connections!
~ NEW Pay Rates! ~
~ No inpatient care, prenatal care, evening or weekend hours! ~
~ We are currently recruiting for two full-time Family Medicine Physician positions ~
Who You Are:
Amoskeag Health is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Family Medicine Physician to provide high-quality, family-oriented outpatient care to patients across the life cycle. In this role, you will see patients independently as well as those referred by other physicians and mid-level providers, delivering comprehensive health exams, diagnosing and treating medical conditions, and ensuring appropriate follow-up.
This position is ideally 40 hours per week, including 34 hours of direct patient care on-site and 6 hours for administrative duties, team meetings, and case conferencing.
What You’ll Do:
- Provide complete, comprehensive, family-oriented outpatient care throughout the life cycle, including health examinations, treatment, and follow-up on medical conditions.
- Medically manage acute and chronic illness, develop a plan of care, coordinate care, and determine need for case conference.
- Make appropriate referrals to internal disciplines of Amoskeag Health and/or external agencies, including sub-specialty and surgical evaluation, social services, nutrition, substance abuse, and mental health counseling.
- Provide care for clients with acute illness, allowing for same-day appointments as necessary in collaboration with nursing staff.
- Prescribe medications for treatment of medical conditions when indicated and provide appropriate follow-up with nursing staff assistance.
- Provide clinical consultation to physicians and mid-level providers as needed.
- Ensure accurate, timely, easily understood documentation in the client’s electronic medical record.
- Participate in an on-call system to provide client access to care (or maintain communication with other providers if part time and not taking call).
- Attend mandatory safety-related and infection control in-services.
- Assist with development of medical/clinical policies and protocols as needed.
- Maintain sensitivity to cultural diversity of population served and age-related competence.